Fundamental changes occurred in the design and manufacturing of industrial products in the world especially after 80’s. The qualities and functions of industrial products have changed significantly with the technological developments in changing and developing world markets. While rapidly improving technology and continuously changing marketing conditions require more economical products with higher quality, the expectations of the clients are towards more flexible and multi-functional products.
As a result of clients’ rapidly changing demands and heavy marketing competition, life spans of the products have decreased dramatically. Under such hard conditions, classical design and manufacturing technologies fell behind expectations; consequently, new concepts and methods came out to meet the needs.
One of these concepts is industrial automation which has affected the philosophy of design and engineering education. It has also caused great changes in industrial technology development and engineering education. Fields such as product design, system dynamics and intelligent control, the observation, modeling and control of manufacturing processes, active robot systems, electronics of force, micro system design and applications, industrial control systems, sensors and robot systems, image processing, artificial neural networks, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and sectors like defense industry, automotive and textile are some major areas of industrial automation.
One of the programs in the area is Mechatronics. The graduates of this program can set up, main, repair the systems consisting of mechanics, electric, electronics and information technologies and keep them working properly. Automotive industry, dyeing and chemical industry, facilities which design and manufacture with computer-aided systems, medical device industry, forest industry, manufacturing of machine parts industry, defense industry, mass production industry, factories and any systems of industrial automation are among the application areas of industrial automation. The graduates of the program will be
· Carry out basic on-line processing
· Draw and set up hydraulic and pneumatic systems
· Carry out processes requiring basic manual skills
· Main and repair mechanisms
· Set up, main and repair automatic control systems
· Draw the pictures of model products on computer
· Set up, main and repair programmable control systems
· Control robot systems
· Use industrial data trace programs
· Follow periodicals in foreign languages and internet sources
· Organize business meetings.
Universal nature of knowledge and technology that produces investigative, participatory, collaborative, authentic and aesthetic values of contemporary culture to create a teaching and professional competence, respect for social values is to train individuals.
Education, training and research quality is recognized throughout the
world and for the first time in Turkey and preferred; that encourages teamwork,
participatory and collaborative with a management; our city and our region,
mainly engaged in efforts to solve the problems of our country, university,
industry and community collaboration a pioneer in providing traditional arts
while preserving the essence of contemporary, original works setting out a
permanent and universal values, respect, adopting the principles of total
quality management, a program that is constantly evolving.
Mechatronics of our age is accepted
as a new and popular science, mechanical, electrical-electronic and computer
engineering come together, the software and control engineering is a concept of
interdisciplinary topics that collects under the same roof. Mechatronics Program,
used in industrial and commercial business areas of mechanical, hydraulic and
pneumatic, electric or electronic-based or computer-controlled all the
equipment, tools, equipment, hardware and equipment to the production systems
and the introduction of these technological structures, design, installation,
operation, maintenance, repair and development of talented, knowledgeable and
specific occupational skills, technical manpower to train.
| No | Program Requirements |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Has basic, up-to-date and applied knowledge about his/her profession. |
| 2 | 2. Has knowledge about occupational health and safety, environmental awareness and quality processes. |
| 3 | 3. Follows current developments and applications for his/her profession and uses them effectively. |
| 4 | 4. Effectively uses information technologies (software, program, animation etc.) related to his/her profession. |
| 5 | 5. Has the ability to evaluate professional problems and issues independently with an analytical and critical approach and present solution proposals. |
| 6 | 6. Can effectively present his/her thoughts through written and verbal communication at the level of knowledge and skills and express them in an understandable manner. |
| 7 | 7. Takes responsibility as a team member to solve unforeseen complex problems encountered in applications related to his/her field. |
| 8 | 8. Has awareness about career management and lifelong learning. |
| 9 | 9. Has social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, applying and announcing the results of data related to his/her field. |
| 10 | 10. Follows information in his/her field using a foreign language and communicates with his/her colleagues. |
| 11 | 11. Defines and applies basic concepts related to mechatronics. |
| 12 | 12. Defines and programs automation system elements |
| 13 | 13. Recognizes machine elements, performs mathematical calculations and designs mechanical systems. |
| 14 | 14. Explains the hydraulic and pneumatic system elements and designs the system. |
The students who will graduate from this program, will
have the knowledge and skills related with the using of the technology in
different courses ( Electric-Electronic Measurement, Computer Prgramming, Micro
controllers, Programmable Controllers, hydraulic-Pneumatics, Mechanisms,
Control Systems, Circuit Analysis, Industrial Robots, etc. ) that they take
during their 2nd Year education. The students, who will graduate from
Associate’s Degree of Mechatronics Program, will take the title of
“Mechatronics Technician”. The graduates can make their own attempts or work at
the departments of industrial automation, building automation, automotive,
production, robots, control systems or at maintenance repair services of both
public and private sectors.
Graduate students of this program may apply to study in undergraduate programs. (Faculty of Technology or Faculty of Engineering)
